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The library

Cooking

a slow pot, an open window, hands that know.

A guide to modern cookery

A. Escoffier

Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

Apicius

Miss Leslie's Complete Cookery / Directions for Cookery, in Its Various Branches

Eliza Leslie

Modern cookery for private families

Eliza Acton

The Book of Household Management

Mrs. Beeton

The Boston cooking-school cook book

Fannie Merritt Farmer

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened

Kenelm Digby

The Cook's Decameron / A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes

Mrs. W. G. Waters

The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual

William Kitchiner

The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390

Samuel Pegge

The Pantropheon; Or, History of Food, Its Preparation, from the Earliest Ages of the World

Alexis Soyer

The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook

Mary Randolph

The accomplisht cook / or, The art & mystery of cookery

Robert May

Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi / How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

Charles McIlvaine, Robert K. Macadam